Definition of suspend. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function suspend a student from school. 3  2a : to cause to stop temporarily suspend bus serviceb : to set aside or make temporarily inoperative suspend the rules. 4  3 : to defer to a later time on specified conditions suspend sentence.
The range of an int data type is -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. Smallint represents an integer value that can be stored in 2 bytes. 2^(n-1) is the formula to find the maximum of a Smallint data type. In the preceding formula N is the size of the data type. The ^ operator calculates the power of the value.
For example, if the data type of the parameter expression is tinyint or smallint, certain aggregate functions promote the data type of the return value to an int. These aggregate functions will not return a bigint unless the parameter expression is of type bigint.